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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ellesius. Hell yeah, same America and Jery for.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One nation.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Hun, this is wrong.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC and.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Morning till yea. It is sixteen minutes after six o'clock.
Welcome to Wednesday, the ninth of July. Starting off in
the mid seventies and yeah you heard it heading back
into the mid to maybe even upper nineties and is
heated X values top one hundred hundred, four hundred and five. Yeah,
welcome to it, my friends. It is the ninth of July.
(00:51):
I am Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson right there
joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
All right, I get a quick question, and I hope
I'm not taking you unaware, but why is the moon
red right now?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Do you know is it one of those blood moons?
Must be? Okay, I guess, yeah, I don't. You didn't
notice that coming in. I saw the moon coming in.
But now when I saw it wasn't red or maybe
I'm color blind. I don't know, that could be. That
could be it was pretty red. Okay, Okay, I just
thought you would know, you know, no, clue man, because
(01:21):
Gaven Newsom's in the state, is why the moon maybe?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So yeah, I mean we laid out the red carpet
for him and even made the moon red.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I find that. Yeah, the California governor as we hit
the rundown, the big stories, the hot topics for this Wednesday,
making his way through the Palmetto State. So he's he's
here for two days again. He was here yesterday, he'll
be here today. Remember hitting the rural counties, trying to
convince uh, South Carolinians that somehow or another Democrats and
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you know, those California policies are exactly what we need
here in the Palmetto State. Or maybe you just needed
a break from California. Maybe So hopefully he's not looking
for any property here in South Carolina. Yeah, okay, So again,
the state that has not voted for a Democrat for
(02:13):
presidents is Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six. But you
got to run, but you got you got to run,
you got to run, and I guess we're still for
some reason. It is bizarre to me, but a bit
of state again, who hasn't voted for a Democrat since
nineteen seventy six still is an instrumental state when it
comes to, you know, who makes it to the top
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of the ticket for the Democrats and presidential elections. James
Clyburn got something to say, but has had something to
say that I'm not moving forward. I'm not sure how much.
But to Cliburn yesterday, praising Gavin Newsom, says he feels
good about his chances. All right, well, we will get
another entrant into the race for governor, and again not
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expected is yeah. I finally I told you yesterday. I
see this blurb, but I couldn't find it anywhere yesterday. Yeah.
Pamela Avid, the Lieutenant governor, inviting supporters to an announcement
coming up on July fourteenth. That's what Next Monday, is
that right? Yes, okay, next Monday up in Greenville. Now,
not saying what it is, but we know what it is.
(03:20):
She's going to run for governor. A very special announcement,
she says. Okay, so she'll join a growing field already
announced of course, at Josh Kimbrel, the state Senator, Alan Wilson,
the state Attorney General, who will be joining us in
the eight o'clock hour this morning. By the way, Nancy Mace.
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Still she did offer to debate Gavin Newsom. Well he
was in the state. Okay, Well, obviously that's not going
to happen. But yeah, nobody be opposed to that, right.
But I agree with you, mister Thompson. It's looking less
and less likely that miss Mays that is will will
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mount a bid for governor. You'd think she'd have done
it by now, but who knows. Our state, as we
usually do, are sending folks to help out. The governor
authorizing the deployment of a South Karina Task Force to
assist with the operations in Texas where now Craig Abbott says,
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what more than one hundred and sixty people are still missing?
Of course, the death hole is way over one hundred
now and is expected to continue to grow, as they're
still calling it a search and rescue operation, although I'm
not sure how much longer you can call it that
death hold. What about one hundred and eleven or so.
I mean, those numbers keep changing, but it's not a
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lot of good, not a lot of help on the
ground there. We've seen abortions this state drop sixty three
percent in the two years since the six week abortion
band went into effect. Yeah, okay, yes exactly. Myrtle Beach,
who had a stricter curfew in place over July fourth
weekend yesterday, voted to keep it in place permanently. The
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curfew want the young people in the downtown area. Look, yeah,
it looks like it will. Well, they've got a second
vote on this to finalize it, but that's expected to
happen later on this month. So it does look like
they will in fact made permanent that crackdown on youth
after certain hours in downtown Myrtle Beach. Shame, but it
needs to be done. I suppose. Okay, Supreme Court handing
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another victory, a big one to Donald Trump, this on
mass federal layoffs. That was a near unanimous decision. By
the way, the only dissenter as expected to Katanji Brown Jackson,
who descends to anything that Republicans and Trump want to do.
It doesn't matter what it is. But the other liberal
justices sided with the administration on this one. So Trump
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we'll be able to restart his plan for mass federal
layoffs after it was blocked by lower courts. So big
win there. FBI launching criminal investigations into John Brennan and
James Comy, the former CIA and FBI directors, respectively, under
criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing. This going back to the
(06:27):
Trump Russia probe. This includes allegedly making false statements to Congress. Okay,
grab the popcorn. Jamie Raskin and fifteen others. Top Democrats
in the House now accusing the Justice Department of withholding
Epstein files to protect the president. Okay, we wanted about
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this yesterday. We knew this was going to happen, and
quite holes, I got to tell you, you know, can
you blame them for saying that? No? It sure makes
it look that way, isn't it. You tease this thing,
you teased it, you said you had the goods, and
now you say you don't. I mean, what do you do?
What are you to think? Well, a lot more discussion
(07:11):
swirling around on that yesterday will continue to be. But
then again, after four years in office of holding the
reigns of power in DC, the Democrats didn't seem to
care about all this. Well now they do. What about
the missing one minute in that jail cell footage too?
By the way, Pam Bondi was asked about that. We'll
tell you what she had to say, how she tried
(07:32):
to explain that one away, ten members of ANTIPHA members
or Antifa, whichever you prefer, have been arrested charge with
attempted murder. That over that to ambush attack on the
ICE facility down in Texas the other day. We talked
about that yesterday. Attacks on ICE agents, by the way
up nearly seven hundred percent. Yeah, and boys, is well
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a scary proposition here. An impostor pretending to be Secretary
of State Marco Rubio has been in contact with foreign ministers,
one governor here in our country, and a member of
Congress sending voice and text messages mimicking Rubio's voice and
writing style. And guess what, Yeah, apparently they're using AI
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powered software to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
There's going to have to be some type of verification
system to where we can to where we know, yeah, right,
that the person who's speaking is actually the person we
think it is.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I agree, But is that even possible? I don't know.
You just don't know what to believe anymore, do you?
And it'll only get worse, all right, friends. We'll get
to that more coming up on the Wednesday edition of
Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You use this always happening, and we'll keep you informed
and up to date.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It's important to stay informed these days more than ever.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
On one oh three point five FM on five sixty
AM WVOC, this is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one O three point five FM
and five sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's six forty two. Good morning, and great to have
you with us. For Wednesday, July the ninth. Here we are. Oh,
you looked this up the other day, mister Thompson. We've
got school districts that'll be back in session'd amount of
weeks in the state, right, Yeah, aikin county. I think
you're on that kind of year round schedule, right, I
think that was the first one. Yeah, I had a
whole list of them. Yeah, it's just about that time again,
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friends again for most maybe a month away, but by
and by about that pretty much everybody'll be back in
back in the swing of things for the most part.
And here we go another year, another bunch teacher vacancies. Now,
last academic year we actually saw the number of vacancies
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decrease for the first time in about about four years
or so, which was good news, but we are still
having issues here and now the three biggest school districts
in Lexington County are raising salaries to stay paper reports
(10:18):
for teachers and other staff, to attract more and to
keep more. So Lexington one to two and three excuse me, one,
two and l R five that is will all be
raising pay You know, this is just an ongoing problem here.
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And I don't know, well, for example, I know over
in Lexington on a Highway six and I can't think
of the name of that school they built that charter
school out there. The thing is massive, man, it's huge,
and I don't know how many teachers in employees, but
it's it's a few. I mean you would if you
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ever have ever seen and it's that's not the only one,
but it looks like the size of a public high
school almost.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's the American Leadership Academy, Is that right? Yeah, that's
the one. Yeah, massive place.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know. With more and more of these things coming online,
that's well, you know, there's more and more opportunities for
teachers who are you want to get out of the
public school setting. And I've talked to some of them
who have said, just yeah, I forget it. You know,
the discipline issues, the leadership issues, the ideological issues, which
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aren't as bad here in this state as they are
in a lot of places. I get it. But still
it exists, just to some degree. You know, you got
folks that are going to these other opportunities and guess
why they ain't coming back. We mentioned just last week
Richland won has got a massive teacher short heading into
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the new school year. I mean, they are way short
of teachers. They're trying to figure out what to do.
I don't know that. And again, braising pay is helpful,
but you know how we've heard this from teachers themselves
over the years. It's not just about more pay. A
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lot of other factors that go into you know, quality
educators just leaving the system and throwing their hands up
and saying all right, enough's enough. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I talked to my sister about this last weekend, and
she's a teacher, longtime teacher. She said, one issue, She's
got friends who left the workforce to start families, but
coming back is so difficult because of certification requirements. Even
though they were certified from the start, they have to
recertify in order to teach again. So you know, a
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man or a woman steps away, has a family, comes back,
and the hurdles are not insurmountable, but they're difficult, and
it makes it almost not worth the effort. So that
I know, So we've got a lot of former teachers
who would love to come back, you know, sitting on
the sideline rather than go through the hassle of getting recertified.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So so, just as we've.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Talked about, you know, getting people out of the workforce
and saying, Okay, you've got experience doing that, why don't
you teach that. You know, maybe we should relax the
requirements somewhat for teachers who have already been certified at
one point to get back into the classroom.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I've never noticed this. My wife, who you know, has
a retired nurse, saying if she wants, if she wanted
to go back into nursing, she'd have to go, you know,
get resertified again with her with their license. Okay, you know,
maybe I get it. You know, that's like health care,
that's life or death. Yeah, all right, but I mean
if you're a teacher, you're a teacher, right right. You know,
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it's like if you didn't drive car for a year
or two, you can get back in and drive your
car again. It's like riding the bike, right, I mean,
come on, this is not a life and death situation.
If you were out of the workforce in the ad
Todd in ten fifteen years, well maybe, okay, maybe, but
you're talking about you know, maybe a mother who steps
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away to have a child or five years, yeah, a
couple of years and wants to come back into the workforce.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And maybe she's a first or second grade teacher, but
she no longer remembers the college out or well, the
high school algebra that's part of that recertification exam. Well,
she's not going to be teaching algebra as second and
third grader, right, so maybe that maybe at least you
tailor that certification to make sure she's not being tested
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on stuff she's never gonna have to teach.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, yeah, why are we doing that anyway? Okay, why
is it a first grade teacher got to be tested
on high school algebra? You've opened up a whole different
can of worms. There, I get it. Make it, make it,
make the make it as easy as you can. When
you got when we got issues like this year, after
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year after year. Yeah, it was better last year, but
still we're short teachers and I don't see that changing, man,
do you. It's a tough industry. Yeah, it doesn't make
a lot of sense. But anyway, man, we've made it tougher. Yeah,
but all we want to talk about we'll pay the more,
We'll pay the more. It's a whole lot more than
(15:30):
just paying the more. Well, but that helps. At least
it shows we heart value the industry. We value the
people who are in that industry, and they felt undervalued
for a long time and they weren't getting support from
parents either. Well that unfortunately, that in some corners will
never change unfortunately. All right, so here we are just
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having the same old discussion at the same time of
the year as we do every year. At least they're
trying to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am WVOC, once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It's fifteen minutes after seven o'clock. Good morning to you
for Wednesday, July the ninth day two of the Gavin
Newsom Palmetto State visits making the rounds. Day one was
rivening it. Yeah, I was on the edge of my seat. Okay,
So Gavin Newsom is gonna run for president? All right? Well,
(16:33):
else no other reason he'd be in South Carolina? And
is he really here to see all the to try
to really convince the state Democrat Party has said that,
you know, Republicans are you know, basically leaving people behind
and destroying lives and killing babies and such, and.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, that's how it comes off. It's a lecture about
what all we're doing wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Or is you really here just to again try to
get the good graces of James Clyburn. Well there's that,
there's that who by the way, Cliburn yesterday praising Gavin Newsom,
saying he feels good about his chances. Okay. Newsom well
(17:24):
in Marion County talking about uh well, Los Angeles and
what's going on there, saying that American citizens feel like
they're being hunted racially profile, racially profiled. Okay, the buzzword
dog whistle brought that card out pretty quickly. It didn't
take long, did it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh I'm in the South. Oh yeah, I can play
the race. Yeah I can drop the race card here. Yes,
that's why I'm here, he says. We cannot afford to
allow this to happen. Well, okay, so Newsom makes his swing.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's over and Camden, you know I if you weren't
anticipating and planning to run for president, he wouldn't be here. Right.
What a weird place we're going to get all the
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Democrats come through here because for some reason, we're still
important to the Democrat Party. Again, as we've mentioned a
number of times in the last day or two, South
Carolina has not voted Democrat for president since Jimmy Carter.
That was nineteen seventy six. That's been almost fifty years ago.
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By the time that the twenty twenty six well that
won't even be a presidential election by the how the
next presidential election rolls around other than fifty two years,
fifty three years, whichever. Yet we continue to be an
important player for the Democrats. We were certainly with Joe Biden,
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weren't we thanks to James Clyburn. I don't know that
there's a whole lot of talk about here when it
comes to it's what she expected, right, Cliburn's just happy
he's no mom Donny.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah right, Uh, I mean, you know, he may not
particularly like Newsome, but it's easier to speak highly of
Newsom than mon Donnie.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But what a weird six months or so for Gavin Newsom?
Well really since Trump was elected again as president back
last November. I mean, Gavin's done some weird stuff. Man.
Remember he had that podcast. Is he still doing that podcast?
Do we know? We was reaching across the aisle, Remember
he had the podcast, and he would invite in conservative
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influencers to to talk to him, and it was just
really strange. He started, you know, rolling back some things
in California that really ticked off the far left, you know,
trying to tack towards the center. And now he's here
in you know, deep red South Carolina trying to do whatever.
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You're not going to convince Republicans here that your way
is the best way. That's not going to happen, and
there just aren't enough Democrats here to make a difference.
So well, it's twenty twenty five. We're a long way
away from from the November of twenty twenty eight, a
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long way away. But these days in politics, it's it's
just no stop, man. The cycle never ends so early on.
I don't know. I'm just trying, off the top of
my head think as far as James Clyburn is concerned,
are the any of the names out there that he
would like better than Gavin Newsom? Well, for example, let's
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put it this way. If Alexandria Ocassio Cortes decided that
she was going to run, yeah, I don't think she'd
be getting any praise from James colenew Right, that's not
gonna happen. And what we may what we might find
out here in the Democrat primary of twenty twenty eight
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is well, where is the party? Where's it going to be?
Will to go as far left as some people think
it will? Yeah? By default, somebody like a Gavin Newsom, who,
don't get me wrong, is by no means any sort
of a mainstream Democrat. But when you put them up
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against some of these other folks are out there right
now making making a lot of noise in the Democrat Party,
he looks as mainstream as I get don't think. Doesn't true.
It's it's it's really bizarre, all right. So another day,
another uh, going around shaking hands and kissing babies and such,
listening listening.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
He's listening to what the Trump administration is doing to
devastate our state. He'll offer any advice as he can
give it as the leader of California.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, he's already. He told folks yesterday that what we're
seeing is America in reverse, right, that they're referring to
Republicans trying to bring us back to a pre nineteen
sixties world when it comes to voting rights, civil rights,
LGBTQ plus rights, women's rights. Well, women's rights, what huh, Gavin?
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Your state continues to let men compete against women in sports,
and you want to talk about Republicans trying to roll
back women's rights, dude? Okay, Gavin Newsom. Republicans here have
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had a lot of fun with this one. They've had
a lot of things to say about it. The state
Republican Party, any Republican worth his or her assault Nancy
Mace challenged him to a debate, of course, don't knowing
that was not going to happen, saying I'll even let
Roe Connord. You bring Roe Connor to protect you in
the audience. Okay. Alan Wilson, who was already throwing his
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hat in the ring for governor also had some comments
about the visit of Governor Newsom, and he'll be joining
us in a little less than an hour. We'll talk
about that with him and with his new campaign to
be governor. Let maybe catch up on a few AG
things in the meantime, because you know, still he's ags.
So he'll be joining us at about eight fourteen here
on this Wednesday edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You never know when the news will break, but leave
us on and you will. I think we want to
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Speaker 5 (24:26):
I was asked a question about the client list, and
my response was it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed,
meaning the file along with the JFK MLK files as well.
That's what I meant by that.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It is seven forty one Pam Bondy trying to explain
away that questions asked that question a while back by
Peter Doucy. The question specifically asked about the list the
Jeffrey Epstein list clients, and there she's telling her, well,
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she was referring to the file when she said it's
sitting at my desk for a review.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well, I'm not sure whether she was or not. It
didn't appear that she was. I mean, we've all seen
the clip. Now, going back of her answering that question,
maybe she was.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
If she was, she should have been more much more
specifica she should have said, the file is on my desk.
You know, again, most people aren't buying this man. And
now she was asked yesterday about well this, they released
this jail cell videotape from I guess one of the
(25:44):
few working cameras in that jail that night. Well, part
of it's missing, and she was asked about that. So
you see the footage and the digital clock. In the
footage that was released by the Department of Justice, the
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video skips from eleven fifty eight to fifty eight PM
up until twelve midnight. There's a full minute in two
seconds that are missing, and she was asked about that.
She says that's a result of the facility, the Metropolitan
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Correctional Center, the infamous Metropolitan Correction Center. I should add,
resetting the cameras every night, and that the DJ will
release more information to show that a minute is missing
from the prison's footage at the same time each night. Well, now,
(26:51):
if you're cynical, you can say, well, sure, yeah, you'll
release those videos after you edit out a minute of
the video. There are too many holes in this story. Huh,
way too many. Tucker Carlson's got two theories. He says, Okay, well,
(27:18):
they're covering up something, and he says that the DOJ
under Pambondi is covering up crimes, serious crimes by their
own description. Why are they doing that? So he has
two potential explanations. He makes a good point with the
first one. He said, the first is that Donald Trump's involved,
that Trump's on the list. They've got Trump on tape
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doing something awful. But he says he doesn't believe that
for two reasons. And really the reason that early counts
is he says that, well, the same DJ under Joe
Biden had all this stuff for all that time, and
if they'd had that, they would have used it. True
if they whether there was videotape of Trump doing something
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or not, if he was on the list, they would
have used that. That would be their ace in the
hole in the twenty twenty four election, they would have
not sat on that. So he didn't believe that that's
the reason why. But he says the only other explanation
(28:24):
he can think of is that the intelligence services are
at the very center of the story US and Israeli,
he says, and they're being protected intelligence agencies. Well, I
guess the idea is that you know, somebody like Epstein
and the circles that he ran in and the people
(28:46):
that he knew, we always think that it's okay, it's
these you know, it's it's politicians who are involved in this.
You know they were, and we know that you know,
Trump had been pictured with with Epstein and your years
gone by. Sure, you know the Bill Clinton had been
on the Louis That Express, Lolitha Express, Prince Andrew, Prince
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Andrew of course famously infamously. But what if it was, yeah,
what if what some some has something to do with intelligence? Again,
I don't know what it would be, what what what?
What possible reason would there be that this would be covered?
And I again we don't know for a fact, but
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most people assume that there is a cover up going
on here, that there's things that are not being released.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
There would have to be I mean, gotta be right.
You've already convicted, is his cohort and all this? Yeah,
why isn't she out if there weren't crimes being committed?
So and there's too much evidence, I mean they collected
everything's on some kind of digital footage these days anyway,
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or there's they're they're digital footprints for everything. Oh yeah,
so there there's too much evidence. And you know, our
FEDS collected all that. Why can't we see it?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
You're right?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
This this may be some type of cover up because
they can't tell us too much. It would compromise some
operation or right or some people were US and or
other intelligence agencies using Epstein to get you know, dirt
(30:33):
and try to blackmail old you know, the important figures
from Russia or China or wherever? You know, is this
part of the whole play here? And there's something it's
it's there's something wrong here. Well, I think that they
may have been mistaken in their thoughts that they could
(30:57):
just kind of gloss over all this absolutely actually as
big a deal as as was made about this in
the election.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Well yeah, and again, like I realized this this question
popped up on the campaign trail, and Trump said that,
you know, he didn't promise to get to the bottom
of it, but he didn't talk about trying to get
to the bottom of it. But you could have let
that sleeping dog life. He'd wanted to. Well, there have
(31:23):
been questions, Well, yeah, we just you know, whatever you could.
You could have glossed, you could have kind of swept
that under the rug and moved on. But they chose
not to. The administration chose not to. They they chose
to again to get people worked up over it and
put it back in the spotlight back in what February.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I guess it was is that when they had all
the idiot social media influencers over who immediately started posting, Oh,
I've seen the files. They're coming out, but I've already
seen them.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, we've already, we've already seen those. It's just, uh,
it's just curious why they just didn't just didn't leave
it alone. Well I bring it back up again, make
a big deal and then this uh yeah, no, that's
not the way you do it.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
It's fifteen minutes a half eight o'clock. Good morning, Good
to have you along, Gary David. Mister Thompson has just
alluded to in the rest of the team Columbia's Morning
News we're hanging out with at nine o'clock this morning,
as we do every weekday morning, well most of all
weekday mornings. Join now by our state's Attorney general. And
now for the first time as we've had him on
the air, here I can officially say Republican nominee hopeful
(32:43):
for Governor, Alan Wilson joins us. Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Gary's great to be on your program again.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Good to have you. We haven't talked since your announcement,
which has been what a little over two weeks ago, now,
I guess right, yeah, what about two and a half?
Almost yeah about two and a half. Well, let's start there.
You laid out that night over at over in Lexington
at Hudson Smoke House, your platform for South Carolina and
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what you would look to accomplish as governor. So let's
talk a little bit about this as we have had
a chance to I mean what is the Allan Wilson
for Governor platform look like.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Sir well Gary. What I outlined about two and a
half weeks ago was the movie trailer to the movie
that will be Alan Wilson's term as governor at thirty
thousand feet. I wanted to give people an idea of
what I would look like as governor, and so a
couple of the things and a couple of priorities that
I have for South Carolina is first, I believe South
Carolina is falling behind other states in the Southeast, which
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is the most competitive region in the United States for
economic development. We can start by competing with other states
by eliminating the income tax, and we can do so
in a way that doesn't shift that tax burden other
to hard working families. We can reform our education system
by giving access to earlier comp reading comprehension and math
comprehension to younger children. We can open up the doors
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to access to technical colleges and beef up our dual
enrollment programs, allowing kids to knock out a lot of
their general educational requirements for college before they even graduate
from high school, making college more affordable and accessible to
hard working families. We can doge South Carolina government from
local municipal governments and school districts all the way up
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the state agencies by beefing up our oversight efforts through
advanced AI platforms and beefed up enforcement mechanisms that will
allow us to root out fraud, waste, and abuse at
all levels of government. Just last week, we had a
press release and I did a press conference where we
announced that we uncovered twenty one million dollars in fraud
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through our South Carolina's medicaid program. Twenty one million and
this stuff. We could have caught this earlier, and so
deterring fraud and catching it could be a huge boon
in savings to South Carolina's taxpayers. Also, promoting economic development,
reglatory reform, litigation reform, and protecting South Carolina's families are
always going to be cornerstones of everything that I do,
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because Gary, at the end of the day, the number
one core function of government is public safety. And as
Attorney General, I've made that a cornerstone and I will
do so, which is why I've already had a significant
number of share step up and endorse me for governor.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, this is this something we haven't seen in a
while around here. The last time we had an open
gubernatorial race for pose was I cant go back to
what twenty ten? I guess it's been fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
That's correct, it will it will have been sixteen years
since there was an open race for governor. And again,
I am incredibly honored to have received so much support
in these first two and a half weeks. Everywhere go
around the state, people are jumping on board. I'm getting
tons of encouragement. And again, it's just been a complete
honor to be able to put myself out there along
with my family, to offer to serve South Carolina in
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a different way.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Now people will say, well, we're a long way way
from the November of twenty twenty six, but we're less
than a year away from the day that really counts.
This day, there is something really bizarre happens. You know,
whoever wins the Republican nomination next June is going to
be our next governor. So yeah, we're about eleven months
away from the primary here in South Carolina, give or.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Take, and you're right, Gary, it feels like we're so
far away, but we're really not. And again, I want
to give the people of South Carolina as much of
an opportunity to learn as much about Alan Wilson as
they can, because this is an important job that I'm
running for, and this is a job interview, and I
want to give the people of South Carolina, who are
my perspective employer if I'm elected governor. They're my current
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employer as Attorney General, but my prospective employer if I'm
elected governor. I want to give them a chance to
ask questions and vet me. There's so much about me
that they don't know. They don't know about my time
in the army, they don't know about my service overseas,
they don't know about a lot of things I've done
at the national level as chairman of the Republican Attorney
General's Association. So I have to get out there and
tell my story. Let people see the entire picture of
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Alan Wilson and what kind of governor I.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Would be at this point. Aside from yourself, the only
other formally announced candidate is Josh Kimberl and I noticed
his platform sounds a lot like yours in a lot
of ways. I suspected that will be the case for
any Republican who gets into this race, how do you
differentiate yourself from them? Especially Well, for example, let's just
take the new income tax thing, which you know a
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lot of folks are very disappointed that the State House
didn't get more done on that in this last session.
And as governor, how do you make that happen because
they're the ones who have to do it right?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, yes, absolutely, I mean listen to, the legislative branch
of government in South Carolina is very, very powerful. It's
the way our constitution is written. But the bully pulpit
of the governor's office, when wielded by the person who
has the experience and the leadership qualifications to bring people together,
to build coalitions and build consensus on issues, can be
a powerful tool as well. I believe that my experience,
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you know, as Attorney General, having worked across the aisle
and let's say across the aisle not just Republican Democrat,
but Republican and Freedom Caucus I worked. Yeah, so we
have parties within parties, and so you know, I've always
believed that one of the best definitions of leadership is
it is the ability to get people to do what
you want them to do because they want to do it,
and I did that with judicial reform. Judicial reform was
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not on top of people's minds before I started beating
the drum on it. And you know, there were a
lot of people who were beating the drum along with me.
But I remember being out there traveling the state talking
to legislators. I had several legislators come up to me
Gary when I was testifying in the state House saying,
you know and was a Republican and Democrat. I remember
exactly where I was standing. They said to me, They said, Alan,
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we would not be having this conversation about judicial reform
right now if it wasn't for you. You're the reason
that we're doing this. And look, do we get everything
we wanted on judicial reform, No, but we moved the
needle further than at any other time in the last
thirty years on implementing changing the ways that we elect judges.
And that was my leadership style and my communication style.
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And I believe what sets me apart to your question
is a record of success and working with people who
don't always agree with me to getting significant changes and
reforms done, whether it's to how we provide victim services,
how we prosecute domestic violence, how we prosecute driving under
the influence of how we protect people from AI generated
child porn. These are things that I've been able to
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work with people from across the aisle to get implemented.
And these are successes that I don't think all the
other candidates are going to be able to tout.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
General Allen Wilson, and he's running to be governor of
South Carolina and joining us this morning. Speaking of governors,
Gavin Newsom finishes up his two days wing through the state.
I know you got some thoughts on that, right Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I have a lot of thoughts Exhibit A on what
not to do as governor was traveling our state right now.
Everything that he represents, and I'm sure he may be
a nice person. I've never met him, but what he
believes and how he governed California on the other side
of the country is an abysmal record. We know why
he's here because for both Republicans and Democrats, all roads
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to the White House lead through the first in the
South presidential preference primary in South Carolina. The Democrats, as
if you recall, Joe Biden was floundering. He was on
life support. He came here to the Democratic primary five
years ago and he ended up winning the nomination because
of what happened in South Carolina. So people like Gavin
Newso recognize the importance of this state, at least in
the Democratic primary. I listened to you earlier. There's no
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way in the world he will ever win South Carolina
in a general election, but he still needs to win
a primary here and that's why he's here.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, Okay, all right, sir. Always good to talk to you,
and we'll be catching up again here in a few weeks.
I'm sure it turns General Alan Wilson, and then now
we'll looking for the nomination for the Republican nod for governor.
Have a good day, my friend, you too.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
The conversation begins here. Just a society problem as people
I know day.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
They don't think they've just.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
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Speaker 6 (41:17):
We watched US News last night at eleven and they
showed Devin Newsom speaking and it looked like there were
a lot of people think six or twelve listening to.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Him six or twelve in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's that's not that, that's a lot for that's a crowd.
Thanks for ing us up on talkback. Thank you, Donna.
It's a talk back if you want to reach out
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Speaker 3 (41:44):
As Donna just did, that's a mob in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
What nicks or twelve do you have? You have six
or other crats? You got a mob? Yeah, it'say forty
one now, good morning. Yeah. I got an email from
a listener earlier said they were watching some of the
coverage of that. Again, what little the was in One
of the stations apparently made the mistake of actually panning out,
and boy when they did, you could see it was
a yeah, not a good turnout. State party officials waving
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no no, no focus back on usom tight shot on
the cabin. He's a good looking guy. Just keep the
camera on him. That's tough to do. Yeah, final thoughts
here on a Wednesday morning. That's one of them right there. Okay,
so I wasn't crazy yesterday. I remember I kept saying
this over and over again. Somewhere I saw that Pamela
Evatt was going to make an announcement. Yes she is,
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and that will be Monday. Monday's the fourteenth, right, yes, yeah,
Monday up in Greenville. Of course, she didn't say what
it was going to be, just a special announcement. So
she's going to throw a hat in the ring for governor.
The lieutenant governor will lay out her idea and her
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aspirations to be governor of South Carolina. So again, we
were talking to Alan Wilson last segment. He's in, Josh
Kimberl is in. We think Ralph Norman. We think Ralph
On will be in by the end of the month.
Looks like next week for Pamela Evatt and Nancy. Where
is Nancy.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Well, she appears to be dipping her toes back into
South Carolina a yet, because she got riled up when
Gavin Newsom made his visit here.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Well yeah, well you have to defend your home to her, sure,
inter Liottle for like Newsom comes in, I mean, you
gotta say something, right. But but aside from that, she's
not said much about South Carolina recently.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
She's well, she's now she's pounding the alligator Alcatraz, there's possible, yeah,
and said it would have already happened if she were governor.
So she has at least mentioned the idea, Well, we need.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
More alligators if we want to do that. I mean,
we just can't hold a candle at the Everglades when
it comes to alligators. Okay, Well anyway, Yeah, so we
wait to see anybody else rumored here. I mean, I
mean John would be the wild warm.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
The businessman up of the upstate will be the wild card.
You would think that upstate business people. If Pamela Evitt's in,
that probably rules him out. I mean, there can't be two,
can they? Skinner?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Sure? I guess there could be. Well, you know, there
could be anything. They're drawing from the same base at
that point. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't seem to make a
lot of sense. Okay. Abortions. We've had a lot of
news recently on abortions in our state. How many you
know we were at once an abortion tourism destination when
we had a twenty week abortion ban. Remember we had
women coming from all over the place in the southeast
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here to get abortions. And how that number has dropped
precipitously since the passing of the six week ban a
couple of years ago. Now the Department of Public Health
out with their report and then just over two years
since that band went to effect, we have seen a
total drop of sixty three percent in abortions. You kind
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of would have hoped that it had been more than that,
tell you the truth. But still and it ain't bad.
It's we went from more than eight thousand and eighty
one eighty seven babies aboarded in twenty thirty to down
to threeenty twenty five and twenty twenty four. Okay, news there.
Myrtle Beach, who put in a curfew for July fourth weekend,
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gave initial approval yesterday to to Well to make that
permanent a nine pm curfew for those under the age
of eighteen and Downtown Myrtle Beach. They'll need a second
vote later on this month to finalize the change. Looks
like they probably will though that will you know again
that that'll change the face of downtown Myrtle Beach. Yeah,
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well big a big time for nothing. I would consider well,
you know first week of the beach, right, you know,
people our age that was the right of pass Maybe
you went multiple times first week to the beach, you know,
without mom and dad. You were a high school student. Well,
you get to be in by nine o'clock under this curfew,
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which again sad that it's got it. We're at that point,
but hey, guess what we're at that point?
Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yeah, right, for safety reasons. It's got to be done, yes, exactly.
But you know, I'm sure businesses are probably fighting against
that policy.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Oh yeah, they're hating that idea. Right. Sure, again, unaccompanied
under eighteen you have to be off the streets by
nine pm.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Well, who wants mom and dad along when you're cruising
the boulevard?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yeah, kind of puts a crimp in your style. Out
of a bit, just a little bit, yeah, just a bit.
The Supreme Court, in a near unanimous decision, near one
dissenter Katanji Brown Jackson, I don't do is a Katanji
Brown Jackson even look to see what's really at stake.
Here is looking say, oh, yeah, Trump did it. I'm
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saying no. But all the other liberal justices, well the
other couple, there's only three of them, went along with
uh Trump, and they are allowing the President will restart
his plan to to institute mass federal layoffs.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
You mean they're allowing the chief executive to run the government.
Uh yeah, yeah, okay, that makes sense. Not that Katanji
Brown Jackson doesn't know, but to the rest of the
justice just I it does.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Did her dense say wait for it? Wait for it? No,
let's see.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
I guess she's writing for a modern crowd. Now instead
of worrying about legally, she just right. You know whoever
happens to be close by?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yeah, wait for it, wait for it? Word that John
Print informacy I aid her actor and James Comy, of
course everyone knows is a former epiat erection are under
criminal investigation. Now, this dating back to the Trump Russia
pro and this includes allegedly making false statements to Congress.
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Ooh okay, no comment from the FBI or the CIA
on this. This will be interesting. We'll see how it goes.
That ambush of Border Patrol agents at that ICE facility
in Texas a couple of days ago, attempted ambush. Yes,
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the only person who actually was taken out was the
actual attempted ambusher. Now ten people so far have been
eleven arrested. Of those ten charged with three counts of
attempted murder of a federal officer. These are members of Antifa. Yeah,
we told him this was not a cartel thing or
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anything like that. These were American citizens. Attacks on ICE
agents DHS says are up almost seven hundred percent, and
we've got a group of Democrats now introducing legislation to
a d mask ice agents. Okay, right, And bad news
(49:21):
for that Wisconsin judge, that federal judge who tried to
help an illegal evade ice. This is Milwaukee County Circard
Judge Hannah Dugan, who was indicted by a federal grand
jury back in May on charges of concealing a person
from arrest and obstruction. Well, she's apparently got to got
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more bad news coming her way. It's not a civil case.
This is a criminal case. A recommendation by US Magistrate
Judge Monday that Dugan's motion to dismiss be denied, So
she will wind up going one into a courtroom it's
not hers, and have some sort of a a sentence
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of some sort of imposed upon her, as opposed to
being the one imposing on somebody else on the other
side of the bench. Yeah, wrong, wrong side of the
bench for a judge is
Ellesius. Hell yeah, same America and Jery for.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
One nation.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Hun, this is wrong.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Morning till yea. It is sixteen minutes after six o'clock.
Welcome to Wednesday, the ninth of July. Starting off in
the mid seventies and yeah you heard it heading back
into the mid to maybe even upper nineties and is
heated X values top one hundred hundred, four hundred and five. Yeah,
welcome to it, my friends. It is the ninth of July.
(00:51):
I am Gary David. That is Christopher Thompson right there
joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
All right, I get a quick question, and I hope
I'm not taking you unaware, but why is the moon
red right now?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Do you know is it one of those blood moons?
Must be? Okay, I guess, yeah, I don't. You didn't
notice that coming in. I saw the moon coming in.
But now when I saw it wasn't red or maybe
I'm color blind. I don't know, that could be. That
could be it was pretty red. Okay, Okay, I just
thought you would know, you know, no, clue man, because
(01:21):
Gaven Newsom's in the state, is why the moon maybe?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So yeah, I mean we laid out the red carpet
for him and even made the moon red.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I find that. Yeah, the California governor as we hit
the rundown, the big stories, the hot topics for this Wednesday,
making his way through the Palmetto State. So he's he's
here for two days again. He was here yesterday, he'll
be here today. Remember hitting the rural counties, trying to
convince uh, South Carolinians that somehow or another Democrats and
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you know, those California policies are exactly what we need
here in the Palmetto State. Or maybe you just needed
a break from California. Maybe So hopefully he's not looking
for any property here in South Carolina. Yeah, okay, So again,
the state that has not voted for a Democrat for
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presidents is Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six. But you
got to run, but you got you got to run,
you got to run, and I guess we're still for
some reason. It is bizarre to me, but a bit
of state again, who hasn't voted for a Democrat since
nineteen seventy six still is an instrumental state when it
comes to, you know, who makes it to the top
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of the ticket for the Democrats and presidential elections. James
Clyburn got something to say, but has had something to
say that I'm not moving forward. I'm not sure how much.
But to Cliburn yesterday, praising Gavin Newsom, says he feels
good about his chances. All right, well, we will get
another entrant into the race for governor, and again not
(03:00):
expected is yeah. I finally I told you yesterday. I
see this blurb, but I couldn't find it anywhere yesterday. Yeah.
Pamela Avid, the Lieutenant governor, inviting supporters to an announcement
coming up on July fourteenth. That's what Next Monday, is
that right? Yes, okay, next Monday up in Greenville. Now,
not saying what it is, but we know what it is.
(03:20):
She's going to run for governor. A very special announcement,
she says. Okay, so she'll join a growing field already
announced of course, at Josh Kimbrel, the state Senator, Alan Wilson,
the state Attorney General, who will be joining us in
the eight o'clock hour this morning. By the way, Nancy Mace.
(03:45):
Still she did offer to debate Gavin Newsom. Well he
was in the state. Okay, Well, obviously that's not going
to happen. But yeah, nobody be opposed to that, right.
But I agree with you, mister Thompson. It's looking less
and less likely that miss Mays that is will will
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mount a bid for governor. You'd think she'd have done
it by now, but who knows. Our state, as we
usually do, are sending folks to help out. The governor
authorizing the deployment of a South Karina Task Force to
assist with the operations in Texas where now Craig Abbott says,
(04:33):
what more than one hundred and sixty people are still missing?
Of course, the death hole is way over one hundred
now and is expected to continue to grow, as they're
still calling it a search and rescue operation, although I'm
not sure how much longer you can call it that
death hold. What about one hundred and eleven or so.
I mean, those numbers keep changing, but it's not a
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lot of good, not a lot of help on the
ground there. We've seen abortions this state drop sixty three
percent in the two years since the six week abortion
band went into effect. Yeah, okay, yes exactly. Myrtle Beach,
who had a stricter curfew in place over July fourth
weekend yesterday, voted to keep it in place permanently. The
(05:19):
curfew want the young people in the downtown area. Look, yeah,
it looks like it will. Well, they've got a second
vote on this to finalize it, but that's expected to
happen later on this month. So it does look like
they will in fact made permanent that crackdown on youth
after certain hours in downtown Myrtle Beach. Shame, but it
needs to be done. I suppose. Okay, Supreme Court handing
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another victory, a big one to Donald Trump, this on
mass federal layoffs. That was a near unanimous decision. By
the way, the only dissenter as expected to Katanji Brown Jackson,
who descends to anything that Republicans and Trump want to do.
It doesn't matter what it is. But the other liberal
justices sided with the administration on this one. So Trump
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we'll be able to restart his plan for mass federal
layoffs after it was blocked by lower courts. So big
win there. FBI launching criminal investigations into John Brennan and
James Comy, the former CIA and FBI directors, respectively, under
criminal investigation for potential wrongdoing. This going back to the
(06:27):
Trump Russia probe. This includes allegedly making false statements to Congress. Okay,
grab the popcorn. Jamie Raskin and fifteen others. Top Democrats
in the House now accusing the Justice Department of withholding
Epstein files to protect the president. Okay, we wanted about
(06:50):
this yesterday. We knew this was going to happen, and
quite holes, I got to tell you, you know, can
you blame them for saying that? No? It sure makes
it look that way, isn't it. You tease this thing,
you teased it, you said you had the goods, and
now you say you don't. I mean, what do you do?
What are you to think? Well, a lot more discussion
(07:11):
swirling around on that yesterday will continue to be. But
then again, after four years in office of holding the
reigns of power in DC, the Democrats didn't seem to
care about all this. Well now they do. What about
the missing one minute in that jail cell footage too?
By the way, Pam Bondi was asked about that. We'll
tell you what she had to say, how she tried
(07:32):
to explain that one away, ten members of ANTIPHA members
or Antifa, whichever you prefer, have been arrested charge with
attempted murder. That over that to ambush attack on the
ICE facility down in Texas the other day. We talked
about that yesterday. Attacks on ICE agents, by the way
up nearly seven hundred percent. Yeah, and boys, is well
(07:57):
a scary proposition here. An impostor pretending to be Secretary
of State Marco Rubio has been in contact with foreign ministers,
one governor here in our country, and a member of
Congress sending voice and text messages mimicking Rubio's voice and
writing style. And guess what, Yeah, apparently they're using AI
(08:20):
powered software to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
There's going to have to be some type of verification
system to where we can to where we know, yeah, right,
that the person who's speaking is actually the person we
think it is.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I agree, But is that even possible? I don't know.
You just don't know what to believe anymore, do you?
And it'll only get worse, all right, friends. We'll get
to that more coming up on the Wednesday edition of
Columbia's Morning News. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You use this always happening, and we'll keep you informed
and up to date.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It's important to stay informed these days more than ever.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
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Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's six forty two. Good morning, and great to have
you with us. For Wednesday, July the ninth. Here we are. Oh,
you looked this up the other day, mister Thompson. We've
got school districts that'll be back in session'd amount of
weeks in the state, right, Yeah, aikin county. I think
you're on that kind of year round schedule, right, I
think that was the first one. Yeah, I had a
whole list of them. Yeah, it's just about that time again,
(09:35):
friends again for most maybe a month away, but by
and by about that pretty much everybody'll be back in
back in the swing of things for the most part.
And here we go another year, another bunch teacher vacancies. Now,
last academic year we actually saw the number of vacancies
(09:56):
decrease for the first time in about about four years
or so, which was good news, but we are still
having issues here and now the three biggest school districts
in Lexington County are raising salaries to stay paper reports
(10:18):
for teachers and other staff, to attract more and to
keep more. So Lexington one to two and three excuse me, one,
two and l R five that is will all be
raising pay You know, this is just an ongoing problem here.
(10:43):
And I don't know, well, for example, I know over
in Lexington on a Highway six and I can't think
of the name of that school they built that charter
school out there. The thing is massive, man, it's huge,
and I don't know how many teachers in employees, but
it's it's a few. I mean you would if you
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ever have ever seen and it's that's not the only one,
but it looks like the size of a public high
school almost.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's the American Leadership Academy, Is that right? Yeah, that's
the one. Yeah, massive place.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know. With more and more of these things coming online,
that's well, you know, there's more and more opportunities for
teachers who are you want to get out of the
public school setting. And I've talked to some of them
who have said, just yeah, I forget it. You know,
the discipline issues, the leadership issues, the ideological issues, which
(11:38):
aren't as bad here in this state as they are
in a lot of places. I get it. But still
it exists, just to some degree. You know, you got
folks that are going to these other opportunities and guess
why they ain't coming back. We mentioned just last week
Richland won has got a massive teacher short heading into
(12:00):
the new school year. I mean, they are way short
of teachers. They're trying to figure out what to do.
I don't know that. And again, braising pay is helpful,
but you know how we've heard this from teachers themselves
over the years. It's not just about more pay. A
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lot of other factors that go into you know, quality
educators just leaving the system and throwing their hands up
and saying all right, enough's enough. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I talked to my sister about this last weekend, and
she's a teacher, longtime teacher. She said, one issue, She's
got friends who left the workforce to start families, but
coming back is so difficult because of certification requirements. Even
though they were certified from the start, they have to
recertify in order to teach again. So you know, a
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man or a woman steps away, has a family, comes back,
and the hurdles are not insurmountable, but they're difficult, and
it makes it almost not worth the effort. So that
I know, So we've got a lot of former teachers
who would love to come back, you know, sitting on
the sideline rather than go through the hassle of getting recertified.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So so, just as we've.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Talked about, you know, getting people out of the workforce
and saying, Okay, you've got experience doing that, why don't
you teach that. You know, maybe we should relax the
requirements somewhat for teachers who have already been certified at
one point to get back into the classroom.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I've never noticed this. My wife, who you know, has
a retired nurse, saying if she wants, if she wanted
to go back into nursing, she'd have to go, you know,
get resertified again with her with their license. Okay, you know,
maybe I get it. You know, that's like health care,
that's life or death. Yeah, all right, but I mean
if you're a teacher, you're a teacher, right right. You know,
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it's like if you didn't drive car for a year
or two, you can get back in and drive your
car again. It's like riding the bike, right, I mean,
come on, this is not a life and death situation.
If you were out of the workforce in the ad
Todd in ten fifteen years, well maybe, okay, maybe, but
you're talking about you know, maybe a mother who steps
(14:19):
away to have a child or five years, yeah, a
couple of years and wants to come back into the workforce.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And maybe she's a first or second grade teacher, but
she no longer remembers the college out or well, the
high school algebra that's part of that recertification exam. Well,
she's not going to be teaching algebra as second and
third grader, right, so maybe that maybe at least you
tailor that certification to make sure she's not being tested
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on stuff she's never gonna have to teach.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, yeah, why are we doing that anyway? Okay, why
is it a first grade teacher got to be tested
on high school algebra? You've opened up a whole different
can of worms. There, I get it. Make it, make it,
make the make it as easy as you can. When
you got when we got issues like this year, after
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year after year. Yeah, it was better last year, but
still we're short teachers and I don't see that changing, man,
do you. It's a tough industry. Yeah, it doesn't make
a lot of sense. But anyway, man, we've made it tougher. Yeah,
but all we want to talk about we'll pay the more,
We'll pay the more. It's a whole lot more than
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just paying the more. Well, but that helps. At least
it shows we heart value the industry. We value the
people who are in that industry, and they felt undervalued
for a long time and they weren't getting support from
parents either. Well that unfortunately, that in some corners will
never change unfortunately. All right, so here we are just
(15:52):
having the same old discussion at the same time of
the year as we do every year. At least they're
trying to do something about it.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
If you're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh
three point five FM on five sixty am WVOC, once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It's fifteen minutes after seven o'clock. Good morning to you
for Wednesday, July the ninth day two of the Gavin
Newsom Palmetto State visits making the rounds. Day one was
rivening it. Yeah, I was on the edge of my seat. Okay,
So Gavin Newsom is gonna run for president? All right? Well,
(16:33):
else no other reason he'd be in South Carolina? And
is he really here to see all the to try
to really convince the state Democrat Party has said that,
you know, Republicans are you know, basically leaving people behind
and destroying lives and killing babies and such, and.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, that's how it comes off. It's a lecture about
what all we're doing wrong?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Or is you really here just to again try to
get the good graces of James Clyburn. Well there's that,
there's that who by the way, Cliburn yesterday praising Gavin Newsom,
saying he feels good about his chances. Okay. Newsom well
(17:24):
in Marion County talking about uh well, Los Angeles and
what's going on there, saying that American citizens feel like
they're being hunted racially profile, racially profiled. Okay, the buzzword
dog whistle brought that card out pretty quickly. It didn't
take long, did it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh I'm in the South. Oh yeah, I can play
the race. Yeah I can drop the race card here. Yes,
that's why I'm here, he says. We cannot afford to
allow this to happen. Well, okay, so Newsom makes his swing.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's over and Camden, you know I if you weren't
anticipating and planning to run for president, he wouldn't be here. Right.
What a weird place we're going to get all the
(18:20):
Democrats come through here because for some reason, we're still
important to the Democrat Party. Again, as we've mentioned a
number of times in the last day or two, South
Carolina has not voted Democrat for president since Jimmy Carter.
That was nineteen seventy six. That's been almost fifty years ago.
(18:41):
By the time that the twenty twenty six well that
won't even be a presidential election by the how the
next presidential election rolls around other than fifty two years,
fifty three years, whichever. Yet we continue to be an
important player for the Democrats. We were certainly with Joe Biden,
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weren't we thanks to James Clyburn. I don't know that
there's a whole lot of talk about here when it
comes to it's what she expected, right, Cliburn's just happy
he's no mom Donny.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah right, Uh, I mean, you know, he may not
particularly like Newsome, but it's easier to speak highly of
Newsom than mon Donnie.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But what a weird six months or so for Gavin Newsom?
Well really since Trump was elected again as president back
last November. I mean, Gavin's done some weird stuff. Man.
Remember he had that podcast. Is he still doing that podcast?
Do we know? We was reaching across the aisle, Remember
he had the podcast, and he would invite in conservative
(19:50):
influencers to to talk to him, and it was just
really strange. He started, you know, rolling back some things
in California that really ticked off the far left, you know,
trying to tack towards the center. And now he's here
in you know, deep red South Carolina trying to do whatever.
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You're not going to convince Republicans here that your way
is the best way. That's not going to happen, and
there just aren't enough Democrats here to make a difference.
So well, it's twenty twenty five. We're a long way
away from from the November of twenty twenty eight, a
(20:39):
long way away. But these days in politics, it's it's
just no stop, man. The cycle never ends so early on.
I don't know. I'm just trying, off the top of
my head think as far as James Clyburn is concerned,
are the any of the names out there that he
would like better than Gavin Newsom? Well, for example, let's
(21:05):
put it this way. If Alexandria Ocassio Cortes decided that
she was going to run, yeah, I don't think she'd
be getting any praise from James colenew Right, that's not
gonna happen. And what we may what we might find
out here in the Democrat primary of twenty twenty eight
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is well, where is the party? Where's it going to be?
Will to go as far left as some people think
it will? Yeah? By default, somebody like a Gavin Newsom, who,
don't get me wrong, is by no means any sort
of a mainstream Democrat. But when you put them up
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against some of these other folks are out there right
now making making a lot of noise in the Democrat Party,
he looks as mainstream as I get don't think. Doesn't true.
It's it's it's really bizarre, all right. So another day,
another uh, going around shaking hands and kissing babies and such,
listening listening.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
He's listening to what the Trump administration is doing to
devastate our state. He'll offer any advice as he can
give it as the leader of California.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, he's already. He told folks yesterday that what we're
seeing is America in reverse, right, that they're referring to
Republicans trying to bring us back to a pre nineteen
sixties world when it comes to voting rights, civil rights,
LGBTQ plus rights, women's rights. Well, women's rights, what huh, Gavin?
(22:50):
Your state continues to let men compete against women in sports,
and you want to talk about Republicans trying to roll
back women's rights, dude? Okay, Gavin Newsom. Republicans here have
(23:12):
had a lot of fun with this one. They've had
a lot of things to say about it. The state
Republican Party, any Republican worth his or her assault Nancy
Mace challenged him to a debate, of course, don't knowing
that was not going to happen, saying I'll even let
Roe Connord. You bring Roe Connor to protect you in
the audience. Okay. Alan Wilson, who was already throwing his
(23:40):
hat in the ring for governor also had some comments
about the visit of Governor Newsom, and he'll be joining
us in a little less than an hour. We'll talk
about that with him and with his new campaign to
be governor. Let maybe catch up on a few AG
things in the meantime, because you know, still he's ags.
So he'll be joining us at about eight fourteen here
on this Wednesday edition of Columbia's Morning News.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You never know when the news will break, but leave
us on and you will. I think we want to
see more details right now. One O three point five
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Speaker 5 (24:26):
I was asked a question about the client list, and
my response was it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed,
meaning the file along with the JFK MLK files as well.
That's what I meant by that.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It is seven forty one Pam Bondy trying to explain
away that questions asked that question a while back by
Peter Doucy. The question specifically asked about the list the
Jeffrey Epstein list clients, and there she's telling her, well,
(25:06):
she was referring to the file when she said it's
sitting at my desk for a review.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Well, I'm not sure whether she was or not. It
didn't appear that she was. I mean, we've all seen
the clip. Now, going back of her answering that question,
maybe she was.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
If she was, she should have been more much more
specifica she should have said, the file is on my desk.
You know, again, most people aren't buying this man. And
now she was asked yesterday about well this, they released
this jail cell videotape from I guess one of the
(25:44):
few working cameras in that jail that night. Well, part
of it's missing, and she was asked about that. So
you see the footage and the digital clock. In the
footage that was released by the Department of Justice, the
(26:07):
video skips from eleven fifty eight to fifty eight PM
up until twelve midnight. There's a full minute in two
seconds that are missing, and she was asked about that.
She says that's a result of the facility, the Metropolitan
(26:29):
Correctional Center, the infamous Metropolitan Correction Center. I should add,
resetting the cameras every night, and that the DJ will
release more information to show that a minute is missing
from the prison's footage at the same time each night. Well, now,
(26:51):
if you're cynical, you can say, well, sure, yeah, you'll
release those videos after you edit out a minute of
the video. There are too many holes in this story. Huh,
way too many. Tucker Carlson's got two theories. He says, Okay, well,
(27:18):
they're covering up something, and he says that the DOJ
under Pambondi is covering up crimes, serious crimes by their
own description. Why are they doing that? So he has
two potential explanations. He makes a good point with the
first one. He said, the first is that Donald Trump's involved,
that Trump's on the list. They've got Trump on tape
(27:41):
doing something awful. But he says he doesn't believe that
for two reasons. And really the reason that early counts
is he says that, well, the same DJ under Joe
Biden had all this stuff for all that time, and
if they'd had that, they would have used it. True
if they whether there was videotape of Trump doing something
(28:04):
or not, if he was on the list, they would
have used that. That would be their ace in the
hole in the twenty twenty four election, they would have
not sat on that. So he didn't believe that that's
the reason why. But he says the only other explanation
(28:24):
he can think of is that the intelligence services are
at the very center of the story US and Israeli,
he says, and they're being protected intelligence agencies. Well, I
guess the idea is that you know, somebody like Epstein
and the circles that he ran in and the people
(28:46):
that he knew, we always think that it's okay, it's
these you know, it's it's politicians who are involved in this.
You know they were, and we know that you know,
Trump had been pictured with with Epstein and your years
gone by. Sure, you know the Bill Clinton had been
on the Louis That Express, Lolitha Express, Prince Andrew, Prince
(29:07):
Andrew of course famously infamously. But what if it was, yeah,
what if what some some has something to do with intelligence? Again,
I don't know what it would be, what what what?
What possible reason would there be that this would be covered?
And I again we don't know for a fact, but
(29:28):
most people assume that there is a cover up going
on here, that there's things that are not being released.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
There would have to be I mean, gotta be right.
You've already convicted, is his cohort and all this? Yeah,
why isn't she out if there weren't crimes being committed?
So and there's too much evidence, I mean they collected
everything's on some kind of digital footage these days anyway,
(29:59):
or there's they're they're digital footprints for everything. Oh yeah,
so there there's too much evidence. And you know, our
FEDS collected all that. Why can't we see it?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
You're right?
Speaker 3 (30:12):
This this may be some type of cover up because
they can't tell us too much. It would compromise some
operation or right or some people were US and or
other intelligence agencies using Epstein to get you know, dirt
(30:33):
and try to blackmail old you know, the important figures
from Russia or China or wherever? You know, is this
part of the whole play here? And there's something it's
it's there's something wrong here. Well, I think that they
may have been mistaken in their thoughts that they could
(30:57):
just kind of gloss over all this absolutely actually as
big a deal as as was made about this in
the election.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Well yeah, and again, like I realized this this question
popped up on the campaign trail, and Trump said that,
you know, he didn't promise to get to the bottom
of it, but he didn't talk about trying to get
to the bottom of it. But you could have let
that sleeping dog life. He'd wanted to. Well, there have
(31:23):
been questions, Well, yeah, we just you know, whatever you could.
You could have glossed, you could have kind of swept
that under the rug and moved on. But they chose
not to. The administration chose not to. They they chose
to again to get people worked up over it and
put it back in the spotlight back in what February.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I guess it was is that when they had all
the idiot social media influencers over who immediately started posting, Oh,
I've seen the files. They're coming out, but I've already
seen them.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, we've already, we've already seen those. It's just, uh,
it's just curious why they just didn't just didn't leave
it alone. Well I bring it back up again, make
a big deal and then this uh yeah, no, that's
not the way you do it.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
It's fifteen minutes a half eight o'clock. Good morning, Good
to have you along, Gary David. Mister Thompson has just
alluded to in the rest of the team Columbia's Morning
News we're hanging out with at nine o'clock this morning,
as we do every weekday morning, well most of all
weekday mornings. Join now by our state's Attorney general. And
now for the first time as we've had him on
the air, here I can officially say Republican nominee hopeful
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for Governor, Alan Wilson joins us. Good morning, sir, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Gary's great to be on your program again.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Good to have you. We haven't talked since your announcement,
which has been what a little over two weeks ago, now,
I guess right, yeah, what about two and a half?
Almost yeah about two and a half. Well, let's start there.
You laid out that night over at over in Lexington
at Hudson Smoke House, your platform for South Carolina and
(33:12):
what you would look to accomplish as governor. So let's
talk a little bit about this as we have had
a chance to I mean what is the Allan Wilson
for Governor platform look like.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Sir well Gary. What I outlined about two and a
half weeks ago was the movie trailer to the movie
that will be Alan Wilson's term as governor at thirty
thousand feet. I wanted to give people an idea of
what I would look like as governor, and so a
couple of the things and a couple of priorities that
I have for South Carolina is first, I believe South
Carolina is falling behind other states in the Southeast, which
(33:44):
is the most competitive region in the United States for
economic development. We can start by competing with other states
by eliminating the income tax, and we can do so
in a way that doesn't shift that tax burden other
to hard working families. We can reform our education system
by giving access to earlier comp reading comprehension and math
comprehension to younger children. We can open up the doors
(34:05):
to access to technical colleges and beef up our dual
enrollment programs, allowing kids to knock out a lot of
their general educational requirements for college before they even graduate
from high school, making college more affordable and accessible to
hard working families. We can doge South Carolina government from
local municipal governments and school districts all the way up
(34:26):
the state agencies by beefing up our oversight efforts through
advanced AI platforms and beefed up enforcement mechanisms that will
allow us to root out fraud, waste, and abuse at
all levels of government. Just last week, we had a
press release and I did a press conference where we
announced that we uncovered twenty one million dollars in fraud
(34:47):
through our South Carolina's medicaid program. Twenty one million and
this stuff. We could have caught this earlier, and so
deterring fraud and catching it could be a huge boon
in savings to South Carolina's taxpayers. Also, promoting economic development,
reglatory reform, litigation reform, and protecting South Carolina's families are
always going to be cornerstones of everything that I do,
(35:09):
because Gary, at the end of the day, the number
one core function of government is public safety. And as
Attorney General, I've made that a cornerstone and I will
do so, which is why I've already had a significant
number of share step up and endorse me for governor.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, this is this something we haven't seen in a
while around here. The last time we had an open
gubernatorial race for pose was I cant go back to
what twenty ten? I guess it's been fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
That's correct, it will it will have been sixteen years
since there was an open race for governor. And again,
I am incredibly honored to have received so much support
in these first two and a half weeks. Everywhere go
around the state, people are jumping on board. I'm getting
tons of encouragement. And again, it's just been a complete
honor to be able to put myself out there along
with my family, to offer to serve South Carolina in
(35:56):
a different way.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Now people will say, well, we're a long way way
from the November of twenty twenty six, but we're less
than a year away from the day that really counts.
This day, there is something really bizarre happens. You know,
whoever wins the Republican nomination next June is going to
be our next governor. So yeah, we're about eleven months
away from the primary here in South Carolina, give or.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Take, and you're right, Gary, it feels like we're so
far away, but we're really not. And again, I want
to give the people of South Carolina as much of
an opportunity to learn as much about Alan Wilson as
they can, because this is an important job that I'm
running for, and this is a job interview, and I
want to give the people of South Carolina, who are
my perspective employer if I'm elected governor. They're my current
(36:38):
employer as Attorney General, but my prospective employer if I'm
elected governor. I want to give them a chance to
ask questions and vet me. There's so much about me
that they don't know. They don't know about my time
in the army, they don't know about my service overseas,
they don't know about a lot of things I've done
at the national level as chairman of the Republican Attorney
General's Association. So I have to get out there and
tell my story. Let people see the entire picture of
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Alan Wilson and what kind of governor I.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Would be at this point. Aside from yourself, the only
other formally announced candidate is Josh Kimberl and I noticed
his platform sounds a lot like yours in a lot
of ways. I suspected that will be the case for
any Republican who gets into this race, how do you
differentiate yourself from them? Especially Well, for example, let's just
take the new income tax thing, which you know a
(37:23):
lot of folks are very disappointed that the State House
didn't get more done on that in this last session.
And as governor, how do you make that happen because
they're the ones who have to do it right?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, yes, absolutely, I mean listen to, the legislative branch
of government in South Carolina is very, very powerful. It's
the way our constitution is written. But the bully pulpit
of the governor's office, when wielded by the person who
has the experience and the leadership qualifications to bring people together,
to build coalitions and build consensus on issues, can be
a powerful tool as well. I believe that my experience,
(38:00):
you know, as Attorney General, having worked across the aisle
and let's say across the aisle not just Republican Democrat,
but Republican and Freedom Caucus I worked. Yeah, so we
have parties within parties, and so you know, I've always
believed that one of the best definitions of leadership is
it is the ability to get people to do what
you want them to do because they want to do it,
and I did that with judicial reform. Judicial reform was
(38:23):
not on top of people's minds before I started beating
the drum on it. And you know, there were a
lot of people who were beating the drum along with me.
But I remember being out there traveling the state talking
to legislators. I had several legislators come up to me
Gary when I was testifying in the state House saying,
you know and was a Republican and Democrat. I remember
exactly where I was standing. They said to me, They said, Alan,
(38:44):
we would not be having this conversation about judicial reform
right now if it wasn't for you. You're the reason
that we're doing this. And look, do we get everything
we wanted on judicial reform, No, but we moved the
needle further than at any other time in the last
thirty years on implementing changing the ways that we elect judges.
And that was my leadership style and my communication style.
(39:05):
And I believe what sets me apart to your question
is a record of success and working with people who
don't always agree with me to getting significant changes and
reforms done, whether it's to how we provide victim services,
how we prosecute domestic violence, how we prosecute driving under
the influence of how we protect people from AI generated
child porn. These are things that I've been able to
(39:28):
work with people from across the aisle to get implemented.
And these are successes that I don't think all the
other candidates are going to be able to tout.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
General Allen Wilson, and he's running to be governor of
South Carolina and joining us this morning. Speaking of governors,
Gavin Newsom finishes up his two days wing through the state.
I know you got some thoughts on that, right Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
I have a lot of thoughts Exhibit A on what
not to do as governor was traveling our state right now.
Everything that he represents, and I'm sure he may be
a nice person. I've never met him, but what he
believes and how he governed California on the other side
of the country is an abysmal record. We know why
he's here because for both Republicans and Democrats, all roads
(40:08):
to the White House lead through the first in the
South presidential preference primary in South Carolina. The Democrats, as
if you recall, Joe Biden was floundering. He was on
life support. He came here to the Democratic primary five
years ago and he ended up winning the nomination because
of what happened in South Carolina. So people like Gavin
Newso recognize the importance of this state, at least in
the Democratic primary. I listened to you earlier. There's no
(40:31):
way in the world he will ever win South Carolina
in a general election, but he still needs to win
a primary here and that's why he's here.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, Okay, all right, sir. Always good to talk to you,
and we'll be catching up again here in a few weeks.
I'm sure it turns General Alan Wilson, and then now
we'll looking for the nomination for the Republican nod for governor.
Have a good day, my friend, you too.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
The conversation begins here. Just a society problem as people
I know day.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
They don't think they've just.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
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Speaker 6 (41:17):
We watched US News last night at eleven and they
showed Devin Newsom speaking and it looked like there were
a lot of people think six or twelve listening to.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Him six or twelve in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's that's not that, that's a lot for that's a crowd.
Thanks for ing us up on talkback. Thank you, Donna.
It's a talk back if you want to reach out
to us, so you can do that on the totally
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Speaker 3 (41:44):
As Donna just did, that's a mob in South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
What nicks or twelve do you have? You have six
or other crats? You got a mob? Yeah, it'say forty
one now, good morning. Yeah. I got an email from
a listener earlier said they were watching some of the
coverage of that. Again, what little the was in One
of the stations apparently made the mistake of actually panning out,
and boy when they did, you could see it was
a yeah, not a good turnout. State party officials waving
(42:13):
no no, no focus back on usom tight shot on
the cabin. He's a good looking guy. Just keep the
camera on him. That's tough to do. Yeah, final thoughts
here on a Wednesday morning. That's one of them right there. Okay,
so I wasn't crazy yesterday. I remember I kept saying
this over and over again. Somewhere I saw that Pamela
Evatt was going to make an announcement. Yes she is,
(42:33):
and that will be Monday. Monday's the fourteenth, right, yes, yeah,
Monday up in Greenville. Of course, she didn't say what
it was going to be, just a special announcement. So
she's going to throw a hat in the ring for governor.
The lieutenant governor will lay out her idea and her
(42:59):
aspirations to be governor of South Carolina. So again, we
were talking to Alan Wilson last segment. He's in, Josh
Kimberl is in. We think Ralph Norman. We think Ralph
On will be in by the end of the month.
Looks like next week for Pamela Evatt and Nancy. Where
is Nancy.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Well, she appears to be dipping her toes back into
South Carolina a yet, because she got riled up when
Gavin Newsom made his visit here.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Well yeah, well you have to defend your home to her, sure,
inter Liottle for like Newsom comes in, I mean, you
gotta say something, right. But but aside from that, she's
not said much about South Carolina recently.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
She's well, she's now she's pounding the alligator Alcatraz, there's possible, yeah,
and said it would have already happened if she were governor.
So she has at least mentioned the idea, Well, we need.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
More alligators if we want to do that. I mean,
we just can't hold a candle at the Everglades when
it comes to alligators. Okay, Well anyway, Yeah, so we
wait to see anybody else rumored here. I mean, I
mean John would be the wild warm.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
The businessman up of the upstate will be the wild card.
You would think that upstate business people. If Pamela Evitt's in,
that probably rules him out. I mean, there can't be two,
can they? Skinner?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Sure? I guess there could be. Well, you know, there
could be anything. They're drawing from the same base at
that point. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't seem to make a
lot of sense. Okay. Abortions. We've had a lot of
news recently on abortions in our state. How many you
know we were at once an abortion tourism destination when
we had a twenty week abortion ban. Remember we had
women coming from all over the place in the southeast
(44:36):
here to get abortions. And how that number has dropped
precipitously since the passing of the six week ban a
couple of years ago. Now the Department of Public Health
out with their report and then just over two years
since that band went to effect, we have seen a
total drop of sixty three percent in abortions. You kind
(45:00):
of would have hoped that it had been more than that,
tell you the truth. But still and it ain't bad.
It's we went from more than eight thousand and eighty
one eighty seven babies aboarded in twenty thirty to down
to threeenty twenty five and twenty twenty four. Okay, news there.
Myrtle Beach, who put in a curfew for July fourth weekend,
(45:27):
gave initial approval yesterday to to Well to make that
permanent a nine pm curfew for those under the age
of eighteen and Downtown Myrtle Beach. They'll need a second
vote later on this month to finalize the change. Looks
like they probably will though that will you know again
that that'll change the face of downtown Myrtle Beach. Yeah,
(45:50):
well big a big time for nothing. I would consider well,
you know first week of the beach, right, you know,
people our age that was the right of pass Maybe
you went multiple times first week to the beach, you know,
without mom and dad. You were a high school student. Well,
you get to be in by nine o'clock under this curfew,
(46:10):
which again sad that it's got it. We're at that point,
but hey, guess what we're at that point?
Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yeah, right, for safety reasons. It's got to be done, yes, exactly.
But you know, I'm sure businesses are probably fighting against
that policy.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Oh yeah, they're hating that idea. Right. Sure, again, unaccompanied
under eighteen you have to be off the streets by
nine pm.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Well, who wants mom and dad along when you're cruising
the boulevard?
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yeah, kind of puts a crimp in your style. Out
of a bit, just a little bit, yeah, just a bit.
The Supreme Court, in a near unanimous decision, near one
dissenter Katanji Brown Jackson, I don't do is a Katanji
Brown Jackson even look to see what's really at stake.
Here is looking say, oh, yeah, Trump did it. I'm
(47:02):
saying no. But all the other liberal justices, well the
other couple, there's only three of them, went along with
uh Trump, and they are allowing the President will restart
his plan to to institute mass federal layoffs.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
You mean they're allowing the chief executive to run the government.
Uh yeah, yeah, okay, that makes sense. Not that Katanji
Brown Jackson doesn't know, but to the rest of the
justice just I it does.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Did her dense say wait for it? Wait for it? No,
let's see.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
I guess she's writing for a modern crowd. Now instead
of worrying about legally, she just right. You know whoever
happens to be close by?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yeah, wait for it, wait for it? Word that John
Print informacy I aid her actor and James Comy, of
course everyone knows is a former epiat erection are under
criminal investigation. Now, this dating back to the Trump Russia
pro and this includes allegedly making false statements to Congress.
(48:10):
Ooh okay, no comment from the FBI or the CIA
on this. This will be interesting. We'll see how it goes.
That ambush of Border Patrol agents at that ICE facility
in Texas a couple of days ago, attempted ambush. Yes,
(48:33):
the only person who actually was taken out was the
actual attempted ambusher. Now ten people so far have been
eleven arrested. Of those ten charged with three counts of
attempted murder of a federal officer. These are members of Antifa. Yeah,
we told him this was not a cartel thing or
(48:54):
anything like that. These were American citizens. Attacks on ICE
agents DHS says are up almost seven hundred percent, and
we've got a group of Democrats now introducing legislation to
a d mask ice agents. Okay, right, And bad news
(49:21):
for that Wisconsin judge, that federal judge who tried to
help an illegal evade ice. This is Milwaukee County Circard
Judge Hannah Dugan, who was indicted by a federal grand
jury back in May on charges of concealing a person
from arrest and obstruction. Well, she's apparently got to got
(49:42):
more bad news coming her way. It's not a civil case.
This is a criminal case. A recommendation by US Magistrate
Judge Monday that Dugan's motion to dismiss be denied, So
she will wind up going one into a courtroom it's
not hers, and have some sort of a a sentence
(50:07):
of some sort of imposed upon her, as opposed to
being the one imposing on somebody else on the other
side of the bench. Yeah, wrong, wrong side of the
bench for a judge is
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